Registration Deadline is Friday, September 28th

General Information

How Do You Qualify?

You need to be under age 23 as of October 11, 2018 and enrolled in an accredited secondary or postsecondary institution that provides robotic arc welding curriculum.

Registration Deadline is Friday, September 28th

What’s The Challenge?

Compete against other students and the clock. 2.5 days. 6 sessions. 2 hours each. Execute 4 project - based activities to construct a functioning object using precut and formed materials with instructions. Complete 2 written exams on technology and industrial safety fundamentals

Whats Equipment Will Be Used?

Listed below are system for the competition

Fanuc with Lincoln

Motoman with Miller

ABB with Miller

Kuka with Miller

What’s in It for You?

Hiring Managers will be there looking for rock stars in robotic arc welding knowledge, ability, accuracy and quality. Maybe they’ll see someone with the skills who’s worth hiring. Oh, and a cash prize: First place: $1,000 | Second Place: $500 | Third Place: $250

What Do You Get?

Bragging rights... for yourself and your school. Satisfaction... You’ve given the next generation the tools and skills to make them efficient and impactful in the future of welding manufacturing. That’s awesome.

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Competition Results

2016 Winners

The Student Robotic Welding Competition sponsored by the American Welding Society, Miami, Fla., took place December 5–8 at the Robotics Technology Park, Huntsville, Ala. Riley Ogilvie earned first place followed by Lu Quan Li in second place and Huang Li Cong in third place. They displayed their robotic arc welding skills and knowledge over a two-and-a-half-day competition. It involved a series of project- based activities, requiring hands-on robotic skills with technology fundamentals, and industrial safety written ex aminations. Each of the series of activities and written exams were based on a 2-h time frame.

Sean Moran, the competition’s chairman, noted this first-time event challenged students in various ways. “Each contestant was provided with materials and instructions to construct a functioning metal mail box in a series of four operations. Each of the operations was performed on one of four different brands of robots. Therefore, not only were the competitors challenged with the call out of assembly instructions, each of these instructions required the use of a different robot operating system,” Moran said.

All portions were judged on comprehension, ability, and accuracy of the robot execution as well as the completed steel mail box quality. The welding project design was done by Chris Gandee of Lincoln Electric. The project assembly fixtures were designed by James Shelley of American Hydro. Judging was performed by Jeff Noruk of Servo Robot.